Banksy was recently photographed in Los Angeles attending to his “This Looks Like An Elephant” piece. That is, assuming the guy climbing around on Banksy’s graffiti spot is Banksy, and that Banksy is not actually Charlie Sheen, James Franco, or a shadowy cabal of Jewish bankers. It does look enough like this other photo believed to be Banksy, but given the amount of face actually visible, it could just as easily be Eric Bana.

Wearing a pulled-down green cap, a brown T-shirt and grey Adidas tracksuit bottoms, ‘Banksy’ scrambled to the top of the old container at the side of a busy highway, on which he had sprayed, ‘This Looks A Bit Like An Elephant’.

Banksy is known to go back to photograph his art, as revealed in his book Wall And Piece – and the man here was carrying a camera. [DailyMail]

Meanwhile, a reader spotted this possibly-heretofore-unknown Banksy piece in LA:

“Visfxguy” writes:

I’ve given you guys tips before — thought you might be interested. I’m pretty sure that I’ve found a Banksy that no one has discovered yet. Not exactly movie related, but kind of proves that he was in the Los Angeles area for the Oscars. I’d rather not tell you where it is — I’m not anxious to get more traffic in the area — but It’s in a relatively remote place in L.A. Don’t know if you guys can use it, but it could be an exclusive!

I have no idea how a person goes about determining whether something is an actual Banksy or just stencil-y graffiti by some non-Banksy ass loser, so the approach I took was to hold two cats, one in each hand, about shoulder-width apart as I slowly approached the picture on my monitor. When I got about two feet from it, the cats started fighting, so I think I can say with bout 85% certainty that this is an exclusive Banksy original we’re dealing with here.

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am I the only one that doesn’t care about banksy? I care so little, I had to comment on it

03.01.11 at 6:30 pm

Ace Rimmer

Surely, the only one who might photograph a (possible) Banksy piece must be the man himself. That seems to be the Daily Mail‘s logic, anyway.

Does this mean that your tipster is Banksy?

03.01.11 at 6:34 pm

JordeeVee

He must get a good laugh when something he didn’t do sells for an absurd amount of money.

03.01.11 at 6:34 pm

Vince Mancini

I’m Banksy, Colonel Kurtz is Banksy, pretty much every character in between.

03.01.11 at 6:56 pm

spazmodic

I’m working on a Banksy biopic, hopefully to be directed by Wes Anderson with Michael Cera in the title role and music by Arcade Fire. Working title is “Hipsteriffic”, but I’m trying to get the rights to “Dismissive Wanking Motion”.

You probably wouldn’t get it.

03.01.11 at 6:58 pm

CROOOOW!

Bansky is just there creating a new life performance artist to rival the growing Franco threat. His next documentary is called “Candy Store Robbery” and chronicles how he turned Charlie Sheen from the unfunniest man on TV into a fully functional Starscream.

03.01.11 at 7:01 pm

Dingus

Banksy’s work really captures the spirit of the coddled, white-guilt laden, bourgeoisie who defined the hippy protest-art of the 1960s, but does so in a style akin to the trashy ghetto-scrawlings of destitute, urban minorities. I, obviously, don’t get it, but that’s just because I can’t possibly comprehend the mindset of bedwetting liberals and unthinking savages. But then again, I wouldn’t pay a dime for any piece of artwork that’s not a portrait of European royalty and/or an ecclesiastical figure. Hans Holbein the Younger is totally underrated.

03.01.11 at 7:07 pm

bane of trebeks existence

Banksy kind of looks like Daniel Stern. Coincidence that we haven’t seen him in a while?

03.01.11 at 7:18 pm

Johnny Bottoms

Pretty sure Visfxguy drew that garbage

03.01.11 at 7:20 pm

Larry

Shit is topical. The Indian is totally Giving Treeing his brain heart to the word accountability.

/the goddesses are publishing The Giving Head Tree

03.01.11 at 8:11 pm

Moose

OMG, what will Banksy do next? More graffiti?

03.01.11 at 11:18 pm

fancyshark

I used the same approach- apparently, my sister-in-law is a Banksy. That, or he will soon throw her against a brick wall.